College Basketball Ranking: Villanova won last season's NCAA tournament, but falls into the top 25 and 1 of the top 20

Villanova was among the top 10 in virtually every preseason ranking, despite losing the top four top-scorer of the season's top-flight title, largely due to the return of Eric Paschall and Phil Booth and the signing of a top team. Recruitment class 10 highlighted by Jahvon Quinerly.

But did all underestimate the impact of these losses?

At least on Wednesday night it seemed like that – because Michigan went early to Villanova, the Wildcats jumped early and took 73-46 victory That was probably even more impressive than Duke's 34-point destruction of Kentucky. Michigan was a 6.5-point underdog who had won 27 in a real road environment. And now you can ask yourself how good Villanova is in its current state, because the Wildcats are again a team that has lost their top-4 goalscorer ̵

1; and the recruiting class except Saddiq Bay has so far shown little effect. For example, Quinerly played just eight minutes against Michigan.

To be clear, Villanova should be all right.

But the Wildcats are still obviously trying to find out about life without Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, Omari Spellman and Donte DiVincenzo. So I dropped them in CBS Sports Top 25 and 21st on Thursday morning. And Michigan is now in 8th place because John Beilein is an assistant.